absurdity

• I believe that my absurdity is at last beginning to obtain a meed of recognition. —  The Green Carnation
• This absurdity was a mechanical attempt to retrieve his buffoon's reputation, for he was really very much in love, and very serious in his desire to be married in quite the ordinary way. —  The Folly Of Eustace 1896
• Suppl. "Galileo"; Engl. Cycl. "Motion of the Earth") that it is clear the absurdity was the act of the Italian Inquisition--for the private and personal pleasure of the Pope, who knew that the course he took would not commit him as Pope_--and not of the body which calls itself the Church_. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
• He says: "If the absurdity is already great enough in theism, it is possibly still greater in pantheism, which moreover has always played a great rôle in philosophy;" and, "Christianity has but injured the spiritual and material progress of mankind." —  The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
• In that case the absurdity was so obvious that its effect upon most readers of the article probably was to make them regard the whole of it as rubbish, which was not correct. —  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918

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